Flower-supporting device for hearses.



H. A. YEIDER.

FLOWER SUPPORTING DEVICE FOR HEARatS.

.APPLICATION FILED NOV. 17, 1916.

1,251,163; Patented Dec. 25,1917.

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To all whom it. may concern:

.Befit known thatjl, EHARRY A. YEIDER, a. citizen of the United States, residing at Grand Rapids, in the-county ofKent and State of Michigamhave invented. new and useful Improvements in Flower-Supporting Devices for Hearses, of which. the :following is a specification. J-

The. present invention relates to flower supporting devices for hearses; and its object is generally to provide an improved device of this character whereby flowers and the like accompanying the casket may be readily and without injury placed in and removed from the hearse; and more particularly, to provide a belt movably carried on spaced members, as rotatable rolls, on which belt the flowers, etc., may be placed. I

This, and any other objects appearing hereinafter, are attained by and the invention finds preferable embodiment in, the structure hereinafter described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side view of a hearse in which my device is mounted, the near side wall of the hearse being broken away to show such device;

Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the same taken on a vertical plane corresponding to line AA of Fig. 1; and,

Fig. 3 is a view in perspective of said device.

In the embodiment of the invention chosen for illustration by the drawings and for detailed description in the body of this specification, the side walls, 1, 2 of the hearse 3 carry inside the hearse my device which comprises the horizontally disposed members 4t, 5 above the space provided for the casket, and spaced apart, one near the front part of the hearses interior and the other near the rear part thereof and adjacent the end door 6. Preferably these members are rotatable rolls, as shown, and are journaled on parallelly disposed bars 7 ,8, the roll near the door being provided with a hand-operable wheel 9 whereby the roll may be rotated as desired. These bars are preferably slidably movable in ways 10, 11, one way being carried by one side wall of the hearse, and the other by the other side wall thereof, so that the entire frame 12 of which these bars form a part, may be slid out and removed from the hearse when desired. This rnowiin-surron'rme nEvIcEroR H nAnsEs/ v Specific'ation'of I iettersPatentf PatentedjDcfzfi,19 17, fiApplicat-ion filedflovcemfoer 17,1916. Serial-No. 131,860. I

frame is, as shown, provided with rods13 extendingl parallelly with the longitudinal direction of ,said, bars, and a around which rods their .endwise direction :passes the broad belt. let adapted to sup-port flowers and the like, and carried by saidrolls. It will be see-n-thatsuch rods-Serve .to support the their extending in said direction, facilitate the ready sliding movement of the upper part of the belt with its load of flowers, etc., resting on said rods.

In order to tighten the belt, the journal bearings 15 of the roll 5 may be moved relatively to the other roll by the screws 16.

It will be seen that flowers and the like may be placed on the belt near the door, whereupon the belt being turned they may be carried toward the front of the hearse; then more flowers may be placed on a vacant portion of the belt and moved in like manner; and that the flowers may be moved toward the door by turning the belt oppositely to remove them; and that in such movements they will be kept against injury which might ;;.upper portion of the belt, and by reason of' r otherwise be occasioned where my movable belt is not employed.

The invention being intended to be defined solely by the claims, is not to be limited to or by details of construction shown or described.

I claim:

1. In a mechanical organization of the character described; a hearse; a pair of horizontally disposed ways mounted in the interior of the hearse, one way being mounted on each side wall of the hearse; parallelly disposed connected bars supported on and slidably removable from the ways; a pair of spaced rolls rotatably mounted on the bars; and a belt carried on the rolls and adapted to support flowers and the like.

2. In a mechanical organization of the character described; a hearse; a pair of horizontally disposed ways mounted in the interior of the hearse, one way being mounted on each side wall of the hearse; parallelly disposed connected bars supported on and slidably removable from the ways; a pair of spaced rolls rotatably mounted on the bars; a hand-operable wheel on one roll whereby it may be rotated; and a belt carried on the rolls and adapted to support flowers and the like.

3."In a mechanical organization of the direction parallel With the bars and adapted to support the belt hereinafter mentioned slidably upon said members; a pairof spaced rolls rotatably mounted on the bars; and a belt carried on the rolls andpassing around said members and adapted to support flowers and the like.

' 4. In a mechanical organization of the character described; a hearse; a pair of horizontally disposed Ways mounted in the interior of the hearse, one ay being mounted W'itnesses:

on each side of the hearse; parallelly disposed connected bars supported on and slidably removable from the'ways; a' pair of spaced membersmounted on the bars; and a belt carried on said members and slidable overthem and adapted to support flowers and the like. v p

In testimony whereof I havehereunto set 'my hand in presence of two subscribing Witnesses, at Grand Rapids, Michigan this 14th day of November A. D. 1916. n I HARRY YEIDER.

CYRUS W. RICE, GANSON TAGGART.

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